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About 6:00 PM on October 10, 1899, a fire started in a warehouse just east of here and within minutes the surrounding buildings were ablaze. Before midnight, the entire square from Julia to Iberia Streets and from Main to St. Peter Streets burned. The fire companies of New Iberia, Jeanerette, and St. Martinville saved the remainder of the business district, but over fifty percent of New Iberia's enterprises were destroyed. Most of the buildings now standing on this block arose from the ashes of that disaster.
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New Iberia, Louisiana · United States
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